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Bedlam: London and its Mad by Catharine Arnold 9781847390004
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his 1735... -
How an Island Lost Its People: Improvement, Clearance and Resettlement on Lismore 1830–1914 by Robert Hay
RRP: £12.99£8.94In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400 and... -
Compact Wales: Pembrokeshire - Its Present and Its past Explored by J. Geraint Jenkins 9781845242466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.95£2.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242466Author J. Geraint JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe
RRP: £19.99£16.42Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native... -
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder
RRP: £14.99£10.95A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
£13.57London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: £16.99£12.94In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge, introducing rationing, encouraging the nation to dig... -
When the Children Came Home: Stories of Wartime Evacuees by Julie Summers 9781847398765
RRP: £9.99£6.41On 1 September 1939 Operation Pied Piper bgan to place the children of Britain's industrial cities beyond the reach of the Luftwaffe. 1.5 million children, pregnant women and schoolteachers were evacuated in 3 days. A further 2 million children were... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: £22.00£16.02'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our... -
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of... -
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
RRP: £10.99£7.77How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has... -
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti 9780571362196
RRP: £12.99£8.32From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: £27.99£25.65Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
Stiff Upper Lip: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series IN DARK CORNERS Alex Renton 9781474601016
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: £17.99£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm -
British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson 9781843681182
RRP: £16.99£11.54Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of... -
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross
RRP: £25.00£18.84'Totally absorbing and highly readable account of a remarkable life . . . genuinely revelatory' The Times'A colossal book about a colossal life, a spectacular journey across the entire twentieth century' Daily MailWritten with complete access to the... -
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia 9780241669631
RRP: £25.00£18.02SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLSThe Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are... -
Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s by Maggie Smith-Bendell
RRP: £10.99£7.40Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn... -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: £12.99£9.24In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the... -
Sicily: culture and conquest Dirk Booms 9780714122892
RRP: £30.00£21.00Sicily's central location and natural resources have meant that various peoples have sought to conquer, control and settle on the island throughout its 3000-year history. Its Italian identity, with which we are familiar today, emerges only comparatively... -
Ocean of Sound: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication David Toop 9781788160308
RRP: £12.99£9.09David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the... -
Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 by Victoria Avery
RRP: £25.00£19.88The UK Winner of the Entertaining category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020, Feast and Fast explores our evolving relationship with food with treasures from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Food defines us as individuals, communities, and nations -... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: £14.99£10.95The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred... -
THE FREEMASONS: RITUALS * CODES * SIGNS * SYMBOLS: Unlocking the 1000-year old mysteries of the Brotherhood by Jeremy Harwood 9780754835233
RRP: £10.00£7.12Freemasonry is part of a long tradition of Western mysticism, steeped in an enduring and eclectic mixture of historical fact and legend. Much of the ritual and symbolism prevalent in Freemasonry has developed over many centuries and relies heavily on... -
Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World by Thomas Harding
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.' TELEGRAPHA panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one... -
The Sixties Railway by Greg Morse
RRP: £8.99£6.02This is a portrait of a railway network that became beloved of the last generations lucky enough to experience mainline steam. The 1960s saw great change in British society, which was moving ever further from the deference that had been ebbing since the... -
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Gillian Adler
RRP: £16.95£12.26Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to 'atoms' or 'droplets' and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might... -
The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis 9780801833588
RRP: £23.00£22.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801833588Author John EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Portraiture by Shearer West
RRP: £23.49£16.61This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been... -
Birmingham: It's Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum by Jon Bounds 9781800683990
£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800683990Author Jon BoundsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network -
The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking
RRP: £24.99£19.35In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows... -
Curious Crouch End by Andrew Whitehead 9781910170830
RRP: £9.95£8.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170830Author Andrew WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox
RRP: £25.00£18.54'An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.' - BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherCovering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific... -
The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything by Christine Gross-Loh
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Sunday Times Top 10 and International Bestseller: Ancient Chinese philosophy for modern life from Harvard's most popular professor The first book of its kind, The Path offers a profound guide to living well through making small changes to our... -
Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless
RRP: £15.99£11.33ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010... -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley 9781859184790
£57.64The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted that over a million people perished between the years... -
Before It Went Rotten: The Music That Rocked London's Pubs 1972-1976 by Simon Matthews 9780857305749
RRP: £19.99£13.35Before It Went Rotten takes a trip back to the world before punk. When Anarchy in the UK appeared, London enjoyed one of the most vibrant music scenes in the world. A network of mainly Irish owned pubs and clubs provided music every night, much of it... -
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939-2009: New Readings by Margaret Atack
RRP: £25.00£17.92The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's Suite francaise and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both...